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Source: http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/docs/perspectives138.pdf
Hamas and Fatah: A Temporary Marriage of Convenience
(BESA Center for Strategic Studies-Bar-Ilan University) Mordechai Kedar - Both parties to the Hamas-Fatah "unity" agreement are acting on the basis of expediency. Despite the agreement, PLO-Hamas relations will continue to be ridden with suspicions from both sides. The world has ceased to count the number of accords that the PLO and Hamas have signed. Hamas' security apparatus will never give in to the PLO agenda. The armed wing of the PLO, as well, will not consider, even for a moment, abiding by demands dictated by anyone from Hamas. Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar, a 25-year veteran of Israeli military intelligence, is a senior research associate at the BESA Center.